http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/ Engadget Comments for Contactless hybrid bus put into service at Tokyo airport http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Since it's not on a very large scale, it actually can use clean sources. Like wind turbines or water turbines and such.. Maybe solar panels?]]>Feb 18th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/What does "contactless" mean, in this context?
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" Like conventional hybrids, the engine and electric motor combination, but this bus magnet using "contactless feed" and to adopt a more powerful battery for the electric driving percentage increasing the carbon dioxide emissions reduced by about 60 percent."

Donald, please don't add any more detail than the article provides. Nowhere does the article mention magnetic levitation, yet your announcing it within the same sentence as the Japanese maglev and ambiguously mentioning "similar contactless" technology implies that it is some sort of maglev bus. It is not by any details provided on the Japanese page--neither in the verbiage, nor the side elevation diagram of the bus which clearly shows large wheels in the usual location (i.e. the four corners) and some motor driving the rear ones. The main innovation in this bus appears to be the inductive power pickup from the roadway, plus some sort of auxiliary IC engine making it deserving of the title "hybrid."]]>Feb 18th 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/
I'll be here all week.]]>Feb 18th 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/
Its neat. I, guess thats nuff said.]]>Feb 18th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/Feb 18th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/contactless-hybrid-bus-put-into-service-at-tokyo-airport/
http://www.mywire.com/pubs/AsahiJapan/2008/02/15/5677157/print/

I'm a little disappointed in the "fact checking" going on with this post. It took me 20seconds to find another article to contradict the translated interpretation.

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